Our client, a leading Education provider in North West London is now seeking a Head of Organisational Development and Culture to lead a strategic transformation across the organisation. This permanent role offers a salary in the range of £53,000 to £60,000 pa and sits at a pivotal moment for the organisation. The successful candidate will design and deliver a coherent organisational development framework that builds leadership strength, transforms culture, and ensures the organisation's workforce is ready to deliver high-quality teaching and learning outcomes aligned with inspection frameworks and funding requirements.
As Head of Organisational Development and Culture your role will include:
- Leading culture transformation and workforce capability programmes across a multi-site organisation, with measurable impact on engagement, retention and performance
- Designing and mobilising a scalable leadership development framework and future looking workforce strategy, translating strategic ambition into deliverable programmes
- Driving employee experience and engagement initiatives, including survey design, insight reporting and intervention measurement, working at pace with the Executive Management Team
To be considered you will require:
- Significant senior-level experience in learning and organisational development, culture change or employee experience, with a proven track record of translating strategy into implemented programmes
- Demonstrated expertise in designing, procuring and delivering leadership development and workforce capability programmes for senior cohorts, including blended and digital learning approaches
- Experience leading culture-change and behavioural-development programmes in complex organisations, with evidence of influencing senior leaders and staff representatives
- Knowledge of apprenticeship funding and the Growth and Skills Levy, with the ability to assess how funding can be applied to learning, capability and talent-pipeline priorities in an education or employer-led learning context
- Proven capability in leading and managing people, delivering complex programmes at pace, and producing Board and Executive Management Team-ready papers, business cases and options analysis
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional standing, with evidence of continuing professional development
- Coaching, organisational development or learning-design qualification
- Up-to-date knowledge of contemporary learning and organisational development practice, with the ability to apply it within an education context
Please note. The postholder will be required to work across multiple locations in the West London/North West London area. Hybrid working can be considered by agreement; however, the majority of working time is expected to be at the abovementioned sites.
